The Woman
Clothed with the Sun

When Brother
Branham was asked, "Is Revelation 12 speaking of the
Bride?" He replied, "Revelation 12 does not
pertain to the Bride . . . it's Israel, the church"
(C.O.D. 1145:Q137).

Please open your Bibles to Revelation 12. This chapter
outlines the earthly journey of the believers in Jesus as
Messiah. The woman clothed with the Sun is the church in
the sense of those who have separated from the world and
identified with Jesus Christ. The woman symbolizes the
elect. Since the revelation in this chapter will be
received by the 144,000 elect Israelites during the
tribulation, three and a half years after the first
resurrection and the translation of the living Bride, we
should view this chapter through the eyes of those Hebrew
believers.

Revelation 12 spans Matthew 1:1 to Revelation 11:19.
From the birth of Messiah, His confirmation of the
Abrahamic Covenant for three and a half years, His
rejection and crucifixion as foretold in Daniel 9:27, His
ascension, and fulfillment of the Promise -- from the Day
of Pentecost and the redemption of the Gentiles during
Israel's apostacy and spiritual blindness -- to Israel's
revival and the consummation. In this time the sixfold
purpose of Gabriel's visit to Daniel (9:24) will be
fulfilled under the Seven Seals, Seven Trumpets, Seven
Vials and Three Woes, bringing-in the Millennium.

"And there appeared a great sign in heaven; a
woman clothed with the Sun, and the Moon under her feet,
and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. She was
pregnant and screamed in the anguish of delivery."

This woman represents Israel, the mother church who
brought forth Messiah and has crossed from Orthodox Law
to the Christian Gospel. The Moon is a reflection of the
perfect light of the Sun in its absence and becomes
superfluous once the Sun has risen. The Sun types the
Word or Light of God; Jesus is the Light of the World
made flesh. The Moon types the Law, reflecting good
things to come. In an eclipse, the world comes between
the Sun light and the Moon, bringing darkness upon the
earth as in the total eclipse (December 30, 1963) before
Pope Paul VI visited Jerusalem (January 4-6, 1964).

The woman is under the headship of the glory of twelve
stars which are the twelve apostles who crown the New
Testament. Ephesians 2:20, "The church is build
on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus
Christ being the chief cornerstone". No other
foundation can be laid (I Corinthians 3:11; Matthew
19:28). Like the Sun, true stars are on fire (or full of
the Spirit) and generate their own Light (Matthew 5:14).
Although the Law is still glowing, it has fulfilled its
purpose and is no longer needed. She has risen above it,
clothed in the Light of the PRESENT Truth (I John 1:7).

Joseph, a type of Jesus Christ, was Spiritual and
loved by his father but hated of his brethren. Both
Joseph and Jesus married a Gentile
Bride. When Joseph's father blessed his two
sons, God crossed Israel's hands so that the greatest
blessing passed to the younger. This heavenly sign shows
the blessing is crossing from Israel the elder to the
younger Gentile Church (Genesis 48:11-22).

Jesus came first to Israel, commissioning His
disciples, "Go not in the way of the Gentiles or
into any city of the Samaritans, but rather go to the
lost sheep of the House of Israel" (Matthew
10:5-6). The S-O-N Light was anointing the woman because
He came to His own and an election received Him. Because "Israel
knew Him NOT", she is travailing under Roman
and "Jewish" persecution, to bear the Gospel
church, and pass the blessing FROM Israel TO the
Gentiles.

Acts 15:14-17, "Simon Peter has just
explained (in verses 7-9) how God visited the Gentiles
in the House of Cornelius at the start of the Church
(Acts 10), to call a people for His Name, a Gentile
Bride. To this agree the Words of the
prophets; as it is written, 'After this I will return,
and will rebuild the House of David, which has fallen
down; and I will rebuild its very ruins and I will set it
up again (or restore them to the Promise I made with
the Fathers): So that the rest of men might seek
after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom My Name
has been invoked', says the Lord, Who does all these
things'." First God would call out a Gentile
Bride for His Son (Genesis 9:27; Isaiah 11:10; 54:1-5;
Amos 9:11), then He will return to Israel during Daniel's
Seventieth Week and reconfirm the Abrahamic Covenant
their forefathers had rejected (Daniel 9:27).

Revelation 12:3-5, "And there appeared
another sign in heaven; a great red dragon, having seven
heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And
his tail gathered a third of the stars, and cast them to
the Earth: and the dragon stood before the woman who was
ready to be delivered, to devour her Child as soon as it
was born. And she brought forth a man Child, who was to
rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her Child was
caught up unto God, and to His throne".

The red dragon is Satan, here working through Rome,
the fourth Gentile empire of Nebuchadnezzar's dream
(Daniel 2). We know this is Imperial Rome
(before the Roman Catholic church organized) as the
crowns are on the seven Emperors who deified themselves,
whereas Revelation 13:1 is Papal Rome and
it is the ten kings of the Holy Roman Empire who are
crowned (Revelation 17:9-12).

The tail of the fiery red dragon signifies the "tale"
by which he deceived Israel, causing Shem, the third
part of man to reject his very Messiah. The deceived
"stars" were blotted from the Book of
Life (Isaiah 9:15; Psalm 69:26-28).

When Jesus was born, Caesar Augustus, who from his
accession called himself "son of the divine
Julius", ruled Rome, and the Edomite king, Herod the
Great, ruled Rome's colony of Judea. The insignia on the
pennants of the Roman armies was a red dragon. When Satan
heard Jesus was born, he tried to kill all boys two years
and younger as he had tried to destroy Moses when Pharaoh
ordered Israelite boys killed at birth. Moses also typed
Jesus.

God warned Joseph in a dream and he fled with Mary and
Jesus to Egypt where he remained until after Herod's
death. Herod knew the Hebrew prophecies and feared his
Hasmonaean House might forfeit its kingdom to the House
of David.

Rome has been the enemy of God's church under both Old
and New Covenants. The prophet said it would be (Daniel
2). America is the image of Rome in the political as
Protestant denominations are the image of the Roman
Catholic church in the spiritual. As Rome has persecuted
the church from the beginning, killing scores of millions
who refused to receive its mark of the beast, it will
martyr the foolish virgin and 144,000 elect Hebrews when
Israel receives the Gospel in the end.

Revelation 13:11-15, "And I saw another beast
coming up out of the Earth; and he had two horns like a
lamb, and he spoke like a dragon, exerting all the power
of the first beast on his behalf, and causes the Earth
and all who dwell there to deify and worship the first
beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

He does great wonders, making fire fall from the
sky to the Earth in men's sight (the first Atomic
bombs). By these signs he is permitted to perform in
behalf of the first beast he is able to deceive everyone
on earth, commanding them to make an image to the beast,
which was fatally wounded by a sword, yet is alive. And
he was empowered to give life to the image (a world
confederation of Protestant churches), so that it
could execute all who refuse to worship the image of the
beast".

Imperial Rome was mortally wounded, her Empire in
decline, when Emperor Constantine united the nominal
Christian church with the State at the First Nicea
Council of AD325, transforming Rome from a natural to a
spiritual empire.

In AD337, Constantine founded a new Capital in the
city of Byzantium in Asia Minor, away from the troubles
of Italy, modestly renamed "Constantinople",
(now Istanbul, Turkey). This change created rivalry
within the administration, eventually splitting the
empire and later the Roman church, between East and West
as symbolized by the legs of the image in
Nebuchadnezzar's dream (Daniel 2).

Emperor Theodosius who was the last ruler of a united
empire, outlawed the old gods, and made conversion to
Roman Catholicism compulsory. At his death in AD395, the
Empire was divided between his two sons -- the East and
West legs. The Gothic and Germanic tribes effectively
conquered the Western Roman Empire in 410, leaving a
ceremonial emperor on the imperial throne, and half the
Empire was occupied by the warring barbarian tribes of
Gaul, the Germanic Visigoths, and the Hun. As the
non-Germanic Hun were the Dragon's seed, these powers
embodied forces from which Western Europe has never been
free.

Pope Leo's intervention to persuade Attila the Hun not
to invade Rome was crucial in augmenting the power of the
Roman church and laying the foundation of the temporal
power of the popes. It was thus that the primacy of
Rome's bishop was asserted over all other bishops. As the
Council of Chalcedon stated in 451, "Peter has
spoken by Leo; let him be anathema who believes
otherwise".

From this, the doctrine that papal power was granted
by Christ to Peter, and that power was passed on by Peter
to his successors, began to take firm root. But the
Western Empire had merely become a ceremonial show for
various Germanic generals. That ended in AD476, when the
final emperor was deposed, leaving Germanic kings
governing every portion. Effectively the Western Empire
had fallen, but forces were already at work to mold a new
Roman Empire out of the ruins.

In 554, the Emperor Justinian succeeded in that
restoration. He saw himself as God's agent, destroying
barbarian heretics, winning back the lost provinces of
the West, and healing the divisions inflicted on Rome by
the barbarian invaders in 476. He acknowledged the
supremacy of the Pope in the West. At Justinian's death
in 565, the resources of the restored Empire had been
depleted and subsequent invasions once again divided East
and West for a further two centuries. But the principal
focus shifted to the West, as Papal Rome turned its eyes
to the powerful Frankish, German and Austrian kings at
the heart of Europe.

The transformation of Rome from Imperial to Papal
power healed her mortal wound, and today Rome rules a
universal Empire with greater power than ever she had
under the Caesars.

Rome and America in the natural, and the Roman
Catholic church and her Protestant image in the
spiritual, are type and antitype. Through her (once)
Protestant image, Rome will ban and persecute the
end-time Bride, as she sought to eliminate the early
Church under martyrdom. Her image will do Rome's bidding,
and they will kill the foolish virgin and other classes
of the "saved", but the Bride will be
translated.

The true Church is feminine in designation. In
Revelation 18 to 22, Jesus calls her His Wife and His
Bride, whereas in Revelation 17, He calls the Roman
Catholic church a whore, the mother of harlots (her
Protestant daughter churches) and abominations of the
earth (her creed and rituals). Rome's military enforcer
and image in the political realm is America, which is
also feminine in designation. Brother Branham called
America "the prostitute of the nations" because
she broke her Constitution and hybrid her people as Jesus
called Rome "the prostitute of the churches"
because she broke her vow to Christ and hybrid His Word
with Satan's wisdom to make a creed. America is the
headquarters of Protestantism and the image of the
"First Lady" that sits on seven hills.

The degradation of women began in Eden when Eve
disbelieved God's Word. Satan has been working on women
ever since, causing those he can deceive to ruin men, and
causing the spiritual woman or second Eve, the Roman
Catholic church, to destroy billions of souls. From Eden
the degradation of women went to Babylon, then Rome. Now
it's in America where the women have invaded the pulpits,
cut their hair, put on garments pertaining to men and
divorced their husbands. Hollywood leads the world in
filth. And there it will be judged (Revelation 18:21-24).

Thirteen is the number of a woman and the number
of America and she appears in the thirteenth chapter
of Revelation. America began with thirteen colonies,
thirteen stripes and thirteen stars in the flag. The
Pilgrim Fathers wanted no Pope. They settled America
for religious freedom under godly men in a freed
country to serve God.

This
suggested US Seal showing the children of Israel led by
the Pillar of Fire crossing the Red Sea, bears a Roman
Catholic lie for its motto. Whereas God regards
rebellion as the sin of witchcraft, to the Jesuits,
"the ends justify the means".

Revelation
13:11 does not call America a lamb, the creature was a
young animal, an American buffalo that "had two
horns like a lamb". Those two horns signify
the strength and courage of the beast, which in its youth,
rested in the principles of faith and its Constitution and
the separation of church and state. Now church and state
are reuniting, and America is "speaking like the
dragon".

Revelation 17:3 shows Rome riding on or controlling
the last world Empire. And Revelation 13:12-18 foretells
us that once the church reunites with the state, America
will serve and exercise all the power of ancient Rome.

The Books of Daniel and Revelation foretell the
struggle between Michael and Lucifer for mastery over
men's souls. Each is building a kingdom. Christ is
building His by grace through faith received through
discernment and free moral agency. Lucifer is building
his kingdom by force and totalitarian rule. The times of
the Gentiles which commenced in 606BC and continue to the
consummation, reveal the rivalry between Satan's
children, the genealogically nondescript non-Semitic
anti-Semitic self-styled "Jews" of Cain's
lineage (Genesis 4:11-15; 3:15) and his dupes of Adam's
line, to destroy Abraham's natural seed (Israel) and the
offspring of his Spiritual seed, the Church or Army of
the Lord Jesus Christ (Revelation 19:14).

Satan rules the seed of Israel under the political and
psychological power of Esau, the Canaanite and Edomite
physical Serpent's seed "Jews" who intermarried
under the edict of John Hyrcanus in 109BC, or were
Hittites converted under the Khazar king, Bulan, in
AD740. Satan controls their religious beliefs by means of
his sub-sewer substitute "holy book", the
Babylonian Talmud, which they hold above Moses and the
Prophets. The elect Israelites are a humble minority of
144,000 of the line of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
separated from the evils of Jewry, and living in the Land
of Israel under the Law and the Prophets.

Satan rules the nominally Gentile world power through
unbelief and knowledge of the Tree of good and evil, the
false teachings of Rome and her denominational daughter
churches. Superstition and psychology in the place of
sound doctrine, which is Bible faith.

The self-styled "Jews" control the money
power which is the root of all evil. By this power they
control every nation under heaven. They established the
capitalist system. They have created communism and fund
it by means of central banks and the usurious Babylonian
fractional reserve banking system that fraudulently
creates money out of thin air and loans it at interest.
Both enslave their citizens: one via taxation and
interest, the other by the police state.

They plan to achieve world hegemony and install their
"King-Despot of the blood of Zion" by a world
revolution between communists, atheists, Nihilists and
other Masonic groups, against Christians, Israelites,
Muslims and all religions. When the world has fought
itself to utter exhaustion, they propose to introduce the
"pure Luciferian doctrine" and totalitarian one
world government. But a preliminary NWO is planned.

This initial form of the NWO is to be accomplished by
bringing the political Zionists -- Israel and the
nominally Christian West, into planned conflict with
Islam in World War III. Preparations have been under way
for centuries and plans were updated by Albert Pike in
1871. Religious hatred between Islam and Christendom is
being fomented in the Middle East with Israeli
provocation of the Arabs and the devastation of Iraq; in
Somalia, Chechnya and the Balkans, the Philippine
Islands, Indonesia and elsewhere.

The intended outcome of World War III is a NWO under
nominal Roman Catholic control. But according to Protocol
17, "The King of the Jews will be
the real Pope of the Universe, the patriarch of an
international church". Pope John Paul
II, like many of his predecessors, is a Jew. They have
not claimed the Law and the Old Covenant or believed the
Talmud. "Jew" is a RACE and has nothing
whatever to do with religious belief.

The "City of London" is exceedingly busy
nowadays. The Money Power also controls the Roman
Catholic church. And Lucifer controls the Money Power. So
Rome will rule the world as the Bible foretold, but not
quite according to the script of the Money Power, whose
plan is to destroy Rome and all religions in a world
revolution.

Since 1990, there is only one true superpower in the
world, the United States. Because of internal decay and
American pressure, the Soviet Union suddenly collapsed.
But remember, the Money Power controls American politics
and foreign policy through "think tanks" like
"the City of London's" Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR). And Russia's "collapse" is NOT
the collapse of Communism which is the creation and tool
of the Money Power.

As far back as 1950, Dimitri Manuilsky, Russian
delegate to the United Nations (UN) who succeeded Lenin
as leader of the World Revolutionary Movement, or Free
Masons, spoke of "launching the most spectacular
peace movement on record". Its objective was to
"put the burgoisie to sleep", so that the final
take-over of the entire world by the Communists would
succeed through the element of surprise.

This "peace offensive" was launched by
Khrushchev in 1956, but passed largely unnoticed because
of the dramatic diversion provided by de-Stalinisation.
The vital importance of Khrushchev's speech at the
Twentieth Party Congress was that it inaugurated the
strategy of "peaceful co-existence" as the
means of achieving world-wide Communist dictatorship --
an objective which clearly could not be gained by
conventional military confrontation.

Michail Gorbechev brought it to fruition, and the
International Jews are funding it at Taxpayer expense
through their tax-exempt foundations, and agencies such
as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), UN and World
Bank.

Global Finance is broke. The American Empire that
arose from World War II is in disarray and financially
malnourished. But the importance of her military power to
the Money Power should not be underestimated. Besides,
their Roman church holds the world's gold. America is and
was ever a colony of the City of London. Like Australia
and the rest of the Commonwealth, America is part of the
Empire of the International Jews, with Wall Street a
subsidiary of London. The US is taking the path of least
resistance in solving her economic problems. Rather than
apply internal industry and discipline to rebuild the
domestic economy, she is transferring wealth from her
colonies and allies. For instance, pressing Japan to
support the dollar by bond purchases and the importation
of products she does not need or want; impoverishing
Canada, Mexico and South American nations through NAFTA;
and military action to prevent development of Iraq's
Mosul oil fields (which would have doubled her capacity
to supply hydrocarbon fuels), thus maintaining oil
profits.

Do you recall Revelation 13:3-5? "And I saw
one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his
deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after
the beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave
power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast,
saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make
war with him? And there was given to him a mouth speaking
great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto
him to continue forty-two months".

Rome was mortally wounded as an Imperial political
power, but like the mythical phoenix, she resurrected as
a Papal religious Empire, claiming dominion over
heaven, earth and purgatory. She will gain temporal power
over the whole world through peace, and her US image and
NATO allies of the Holy Roman Empire will enforce that
peace throughout forty two months of absolute
sovereignty.

Remember who really rules Rome: Lucifer through the
Money Power of the Rothschilds, Benjamin Disraeli called
Rothschilds "the hidden hand" that controls ALL
governments.

In the brief World War III, Islam will be supported by
Communist nations, Russia and China. With
malice-a-foresight, an alliance is being proposed between
Japan, Taiwan and the US -- with Australia supposed to
persuade Indonesia to join in the fray (John Simpson, The
Weekly Telegraph, UK, Vol. 26 Issue 451).
The strategy is always: "divide and conquer".

Beneath the surface of all factions, left and right,
Christian, Jewish, or Moslem, capitalist or communist,
"the City of London" rules through global
financial and political manipulation. Whether it is
European cohesion, US Presidential elections, US foreign
policy, Colombian, Albanian, Chechenyan, Taliban
narcoterrorism, oil-pricing-policy bombing of Iraq,
Kashmiri "separatism", the military overthrow
of Pakistan's elected government, a motion of no
confidence removing the elected government of India or
Australia, sabotaging trade relations and the political
moving-together of Taiwan and China, the collapse of the
Asian Tigers, the break-up of Indonesia, the emergence of
a new political leadership in Australia, or the
imposition of a Goods and Services Tax (GST) to wreck
Australia's economy, "the City" rules.

Israel, a type of America, was freed from physical
slavery into a wilderness where she was tried by the Lord
before entering her Promised Land. There she drove out
the occupants and possessed it. America's settlers were
freed from spiritual slavery into a wilderness before
they came to a place of rest prepared of God in the New
World, took the land from the Indians and possessed it.

God made Israel the mightiest nation in the world,
because so long as it was in His will it was invincible.
Then He took a handful of people who wanted freedom to
serve Him and made America the mightiest nation in the
world. America once proclaimed "In God we
Trust" -- "friendship with all, and alliances
with none". But upon entering the UN, America placed
her trust in a confederation of unbelievers and has lost
every war since (Isaiah 8:9-22). Now she has come to a
place of no more repentance.

The founders of the town of Philadelphia called
themselves "the woman in the wilderness"
of Revelation 12:6, because they had fled the religious
oppression of the established church in England and
Europe. Judge Rutherford, Mother Shipton and others have
tried to figure out the Scriptures with pencil and paper.
But God knows precisely what His Word means. He
interprets His Word by bringing It to pass, or sending
and vindicating a prophet. He promised that "in
the days of the Voice of the angel to the Laodicean
Church Age, the mystery of God as spoken by the mouth of
all His holy prophets since the world began should be
finished" (Acts 3:21; Revelation 10:7).

The "wilderness" is a place of
desolation and loneliness where all the saints have
lived. Martin Luther and his followers were cast into the
wilderness by the Roman church; John Wesley was put out
by the Anglicans; and for years the Methodists, Baptists,
Nazarene and Pilgrim Holiness groups were in the
wilderness, where God sent angels to feed them
Supernaturally as He fed Elijah by ravens (I Kings 17).
More recently the Pentecostals fled into the wilderness.
But Satan and civilization eventually encroach upon the
wilderness with education, reasoning against the Word,
and things that satisfy the senses. Each time God
revealed more of His Word in a fresh Move of the Spirit,
He separated His "little flock" for a
closer walk with Him.

Brother Branham called his own church "the
backside of the desert", and this present separation
has been in process since Laodicea ended. God could not
immediately take us into the eternal Land of the
Millennium any more than He could allow Abraham to settle
the Promised Land because the occupants must be
destroyed, and the iniquity of the Amorites is not quite
full (Malachi 4:1-3).

Brother Branham said, "When her man Child was
caught up to sit on God's throne, . . . the woman fled
into the wilderness where she was taken care of for a
thousand two hundred and three score days, to exactly the
date of Plymouth Rock, exactly, where the church came
over here for freedom of religion, and she established
here" (Mark of the Beast,
#26:3, 22:157) just as Israel wandered in the wilderness
and established in Canaan Land. That would be 1620.
Deducting 1260 regular 365.25-day years from 1620, we
come to AD360 which is the date of the Council at
Constantinople where the Nicene Creed was issued as the
Catholic faith. That's historical comment, not doctrinal
statement. "God had made the promise to the church
(to the woman), to come into this country"
-- America (Jezebel Religion,
7:53).

Israel had to be tried, proven and sanctified. Those
who came out with Moses perished in the Wilderness. Any
elect among them would receive their reward through the
grave, at Jesus' resurrection. Likewise, Pentecostals and
others born-again by part-Word before the
opening of the Seven Seals will perish in the wilderness
journey and enter the Millennium through death's door.

God commanded Moses to utterly slay the Amorites and
other Serpent seed people found in their Land. Christians
too are to be totally separated unto the Word. Wise men
wanted to exclude Catholic and Jew from America
by the Constitution. Today they've intermarried with the
physical Serpent's seed, invited tens of millions to
settle, and united in brotherhood with spiritual Dragon's
seed of Roman Catholicism. The iniquity of the Amorites
is just about full again. America will be utterly
destroyed by nuclear
warfare as God revealed to Brother Branham by vision in
1933. "The last and seventh vision was
wherein I heard a most terrible explosion. As I turned to
look I saw nothing but debris, craters, and smoke all
over the land of America" (An Exposition
of the Seven Church Ages, 322:3).

Israel rose to greatness under God-fearing kings like
David and Solomon and declined under Ahab who was led by
his pagan wife, Jezebel, and Israel finally intermarried
with natural Serpent's seed. Likewise, America rose to
greatness under godly men like George Washington and
Lincoln, and declined under President Kennedy who was led
by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic church, making an
image unto the beast.

Forty-two is the number of "man's
opposition to God".

When Ephraim failed to join Israel in their fight
against Ammon, Jepthah slew forty-two thousand
Ephraimites (Judges 12:6). Two she bears killed forty-two
children who were disrespectful to God's prophet, Elijah
(II Kings 2:24).

Jesus Christ is the forty-second generation from
Abraham (Matthew 1:17). The Roman church will have
dominion over Jerusalem for forty-two months (Daniel
7:23-25; 12:7; Revelation 11:2; 13:5). Forty-two churches
in one place agreed to sponsor a series of Brother
Branham's meetings, and when Brother Branham got there,
he had none (Unveiling of God,
38:257).

Israel had forty-two camps before they reached their
rest (Numbers 33:50-56). And America has had forty-two
administrations -- President Bill Clinton is the
forty-second President of America. A lady's man, like
President Kennedy, he even tried to find an old lover in
Norway during an official visit. Will the Clinton
administration mark the end of the woman's journey?

Seven major continuous visions came to Brother one
Sunday morning in June, 1933. The Lord Jesus spoke to him
and said that the coming of the Lord was drawing nigh,
but that before He came, seven major events would
transpire. "In the sixth vision there arose up in
America a most beautiful, but cruel woman. She held the
people in her complete power. I believed that this was
the rise of the Roman Catholic Church . ." (An
Exposition of the Seven Church Ages,
322:2).

Will President Clinton be the LAST President before
the woman, Rome, takes over? Will President Clinton lead
America into World War III as Roosevelt led America into
Britain's tea party? Will he use war and Roosevelt's
precedent of breaking the Constitution for a third term
as an excuse to run for his third term?

Brother Branham said when the Constitution's broken a
little more, they'll put you in chains for preaching the
Gospel (C.O.D., 145:201-203).
He tied that comment to the end of the Gentile
dispensation and the manifestation of the Sons of God.

Like Clinton, Roosevelt was a fascist dictator set-out
to bankrupt and destroy America and bring in the Jew, er.
. . New World Order. Mr. Clinton is a pharaoh who
doesn't know Joseph, and like Pharaoh, he has a great
military power. But as it was in the days of Moses, God
has a little group under THUS SAITH THE LORD of a
vindicated prophet. Is history repeating as God turns
back to Israel?

The hour is late so here is something you can ask the
Holy Spirit to assess, and perhaps correct or help expand
my understanding.

In 1961, the Lord showed Brother Branham a
vision wherein he shot a caribou with forty-two inch
horns and afterwards, a silver tip grizzly bear.
The caribou is the North American rein deer.
"Rein" has the same meaning as reign, rule,
govern or control. A "deer" is to a cud-chewing
animal with deciduous horns. A "horn" in Bible
symbolism is a power like a king or a dictator. The US
"horn" is "deciduous" in the sense
that the President has a limited term and is then
replaced. Mr. Clinton is the forty-second
"horn".

Although I have not preached this to a large
congregation before, I have long believed this animal
Brother Branham saw in the vision and later shot,
signified the total number of US Presidential
administrations to the end of the Gentile dispensation.
American Presidents have often expressed "man's
opposition to God". Many have been traitors to
America, lackeys of the Rothschilds, and in this century,
Communists! Like American presidents who are elected, the
horns of the caribou are regularly replaced. Whereas
caribou horns normally have panels, the horns in
the vision had spikes measuring exactly
forty-two inches. The horns on the beast that rose up
from the sea had ten spikes, and they will rule a short
time with Rome, deserting him at the end of forty-two
months precisely (Revelation 13:1; 17:12-13; Daniel
2:41-44).

The little gun Brother Branham used to shoot the
beasts represents God's Word which accomplishes that for
which it was sent. The fact that he killed each animal
with one shot indicates the infalibility of prophecy. Had
he missed, it would have represented sin. It is the
spoken Word with which God will destroys His enemies. Our
defense and our resurrection will be the manifestation of
that Word in us.

Brother Branham afterwards shot the silver tip grizzly
with one shot in the heart. And the bear continued
charging after he was shot, dying fifty yards from where
he was standing. Perhaps I am stretching my imagination .
. . or yours, but fifty is the number of Jubilee, and the
Pentecostal Jubilee is the catching away of the Bride.
The head and the horns of the caribou weighed a hundred
and fifty pounds.

Brother Branham said there are four bears in the
grizzly family (as there are four different world empires
in the times of the Gentiles). He described the silver
tip bear as highly strung, ill-tempered, and the biggest
fighter of the four types of bear. Certainly, "one
of his heads was wounded to death; and his deadly wound
was healed." He's a real fighter, that iron
runs right to the toes.

Brother Branham found and shot this bear in
"sheep country". It was black with silver on
the tips of its fur. Black represents sin, whilst silver
signifies redemption. This is confusion, like the Tree of
the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Another word for
confusion is "Babylon". "Mystery,
Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations
of the Earth" which stalks its prey among the
"sheep".

From its fierce appearance and disposition I identify
this bear with the beast described by Daniel 7:7-8,
19-25, and Revelation 13:2. I believe it represents the
Roman Catholic church which will rule the world with
America and the Black Nobility of the ten kingdoms of a
revived Holy Roman Empire as revealed to Daniel and John
in a series of visions.

In some places Brother Branham said the bear would be
nine feet tall. Nine is the number of finality and
judgment. Once the bear had been slain, he said it was
seven feet tall. Seven is the number for completion.
Russia will annihilate the US, and then the Vatican by
nuclear bombs. But the Devil-incarnate Roman Beast ruling
from Jerusalem, will continue his aggression after the
destruction of the Vatican (Revelation 17:16; 18:6-20;
19:2-3). Then Armageddon will break out wherein ALL life
will be destroyed.

From the third to the nineteenth chapter of
Revelation, God is dealing with Israel. Then from the
nineteenth to the end of the Book we see the Bride and
Groom returning to earth for the Millennium with the Old
Testament saints and the 144,000 elect Israelites.

Please open your Bibles and follow closely. The first
three chapters of the Book of Revelation reveals all that
happens to the Church. When Christ opened the Seven Seals
and revealed them through His prophet in March, 1963, the
Church was potentially sealed. "Grieve not the
Holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed UNTIL THE DAY
THAT THE BOOK OF REDEMPTION IS REVEALED AND THE REDEEMER
COMES TO CLAIM HIS POSSESSION" (Ephesians 4:30;
Revelation 5).

Redemption was virtually finished because the end-time
Bride, like the 144,000 Israelites, were fully
redeemed IN Christ ON Calvary.
The Church Age saints however were NOT
able to be fully redeemed on the Cross because
in their dispensations the Bible was sealed with Seven
Seals; they had only PART-Word
and required Christ's Mediation for their ignorance in
order that they could be born-again. Thus the Church is finished
at the end of the third Chapter.

Revelation 7:1-17 is in parenthesis,
meaning it is a soliloquy or narrative that shows the
calling out of the 144,000 by God's two witnesses in the
great tribulation under the Sixth Seal, and between the
Sixth Seal (Revelation 6:12-17) and Seventh Seal
(Revelation 8:1) as they appear in the Book.

The Seven Trumpet mysteries (Revelation 8:7-9:21 and
11:14-19) are preached to Israel under the Sixth Trumpet,
bringing him from bondage in spiritual Egypt back to the
Word from which he apostatised, by an understanding of
the history of the past 2,000 years, and his
PRESENT truth. This revelation is typed in Leviticus by
the Feast of Trumpets, calling Israel to Jerusalem for
the Feast of Atonement which will be a mourning for their
rejection of Messiah throughout 2,000 years as described
in Zechariah 12-13 (Leviticus 16; 23:26-32). Under the
Sixth Trumpet (Revelation 9:13-21), Rome looses a
religious persecution; Christ takes His Bride Home to the
Wedding Supper, and two prophets minister to Israel,
smiting the Earth with plagues by the spoken Word as oft
as they please.

Revelation 10:1-11:13 is also in parenthesis, meaning
it is a soliloquy or narrative that describes the Message
of Brother Branham, the angel to the Seventh Church Age
indicting the denominationals for rejecting Christ, and
calling the Bride out of worldly traditions into the
fullness of the genuine Atonement -- Christ manifest
among us. Once the Bride is ready she is translated, and
144,000 elect Israelites are called by their two prophets
from the shadows of bulls and goats, by the Seven Trumpet
mysteries to the sacrificed and risen living Word. These
things are revealed to the Bride under the Sixth Trumpet as
it is positioned in the Bible (Revelation
9:13-21).

When the churches rejected Christ, the Holy
Spirit in 1963, they took the mark of the beast, uniting
among themselves and with the State as we have mentioned,
to form an image to the beast.

Revelation 12:1 to 18:24 is also a parenthesis. The
Bride is gone at this time. The manifestation of the
Seventh or Great Trumpet of Isaiah 18:1-3; 27:12-13 marks
the end of the Gentile dispensation. Under the revelation
of the Seventh Trumpet (Revelation 11:14-19) to Israel
(which is the revelation of the previous Six Trumpets and
Christ's parousia to them), "the temple of God
in heaven is opened and the Ark of His Testament is seen
in His Temple, and there is a mighty earthquake".
These symbols signify the ministry of Israel's two
prophets finally revealing Jesus Christ. The Ark of the
Covenant was the symbol of God's Presence with Israel --
His parousia to Israel. The earthquake is California, and
the end of the Gentile dispensation.

Revelation 12:7-12, "And there was war in
heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon;
and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not;
neither was their place found any more in heaven".

We see this passage is directed to the Hebrews because
the Archangel or Chief Messenger we know as our Lord
Jesus Christ is here called by the Hebrew name, Michael
("Who is like God"). The Dragon is Satan, and
"his angels" are they whose names are not on
the Book of Life from the foundation of the world
(Revelation 17:8). Hence they are lost and have no place
in heaven.

"And the great dragon was cast out, that old
serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, who deceives the
whole world: he was cast out into the Earth, and his
angels were cast out with him".

The casting out of Satan coincides with the
manifestation of the Seventh or Great Trump at the end of
the Gentile dispensation that is marked by an earthquake
sinking Los Angeles.

"And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven,
Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of
our God, and the power of His Christ: for the accuser of
our brethren is cast down, who accused them before our
God day and night. And they (the Church Age saints) overcame
him by the blood of the Lamb, and (the Fifth Seal
Israelites overcame) by the Word of their testimony;
and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore
rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe to
you O Earth and sea! for the Devil is come down to you in
fierce anger, because he knows that he has but a short
time".

When Satan is cast down he incarnates the pope of Rome
who changes from the false prophet to the beast. The
Bride will become a hunted and persecuted little group,
and after a brief and powerful display of the Spirit in
the manifestation of the Sons of God, go Home to the
Marriage Supper of the Lamb in the sky.

Revelation 12:13-14, "And when the dragon saw
that he was cast down to the Earth, he persecuted the
woman who brought forth the man child".

Notice, he is no longer persecuting the elect Church.
She has been translated. This is the Israelite Church who
brought forth Jesus, the Messiah..

"And to the woman were given two wings of the
great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into
her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times,
and half a time, from the face of the serpent".

The Great Eagle is Jehovah God Whose wings are two
Hebrew prophets with the anointings of Moses and Elijah
to show the 144,000 whence they fell in the Old
Testament, and by explaining its shadows and types in
history and prophecy, disclose their predestinated place
in the New Covenant.

Their wilderness like our own, is a place and state of
heart which worldly and religious folk disdain. In
Revelation 11:2 it is the Holy of Holies and the Holy
Place which SYMBOLIZE a holy walk in the
Presence of God or the revelation of His Word, or where
ever two or more are united in the faith, NOT an actual
temple. For the 144,000, it will be in Israel, where God
will feed the Israelite believers for three and a half
prophetic years under the ministry of the two prophets.

These three and a half years are all that remains of
the Spiritual promise of Daniel's Seventieth Week to reconfirm
the Covenant. The covenant of Daniel 9:27 was confirmed
for half a week (or three and a half prophetic years)
under the ministry of John the Baptist and Jesus. Jesus
never went to the Gentiles, and told His disciples, "Go
not into the way of the Gentiles nor enter any city of
the Samaritans; but go to the lost sheep of the House of
Israel". The Abrahamic Covenant was confirmed
to the Israelite first.

Jesus was thoroughly vindicated to Israel, but God
allowed the ministers to blind their spiritual vision to
create a dispensation wherein we Gentiles
could receive the grace they would reject. The Seventieth
Week is the tribulation period. After the resurrection
and translation of the Church, the Covenant will be
reconfirmed for three and a half years by the prophets of
Zechariah 4 and Revelation 11.

Revelation 12:15-17, "And the serpent cast
out of his mouth water (multitudes of people) as
a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be
carried away of the flood (his armed forces). And
the Earth helped the woman, and the Earth opened her
mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast
out of his mouth."

Another earthquake in Earth's birth pains to push up
Mount Zion from within her bowels in preparation for the
descent of New Jerusalem which is the Bride of Christ
(Zechariah 14:4-5; Revelation 11:13; 21:2).

Isaiah 29:5-8, "The multitude of your strangers
(Rome's Serpent's seed army) shall be like small
dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as
chaff that blows away: in an instant suddenly. You shall
be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with
earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and
the flame of devouring fire. And the multitude of all the
nations that fight against Ariel (Jerusalem, the Lion of
God), and her munition, and that distress her, shall be
as a dream. It shall be as when a hungry man dreams of
eating but awakens hungry: or as when a thirsty man
dreams, but when he wakens, he is faint, and his thirst
is not quenched: so shall the multitude of all the
nations be, that fight against mount Zion".

"And the dragon was furious with the woman
(the blessing has crossed back from the youngest to the
eldest), and went to make war with the remnant of her
seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ (the 144,000 elect
Israelites and the foolish virgin)". bb000415.htm